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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/anultravioletaurora on 2025-02-08 16:28:47+00:00.

Hi friends! 👋

I'm Violet, and I've been a lurker of this community for years. I'm a SE by trade, I started hosting on a 2006 Dell desktop running Windows from my university's surplus sales. I've since evolved to a multinode Harvester setup to run a highly available RKE2 cluster for compute tasks, and an Unraid NAS for data storage. Like many selfhosters, I also started with Plex and fell down the rabbit hole instantly

I moved to Jellyfin this year and have fallen in love. I migrated myself and all my users from Plex and could not have been happier - but I do miss one thing: Plexamp.

Don't get me wrong - all of the music apps that exist for Jellyfin are excellent. Manet is gorgeous and if you are on iOS, I highly recommend giving it a shot. The developer is very responsive and it's incredibly svelte. Finamp is also fantastic and is what I've used up until this point.

I just prefer a different music listening experience to what they offer.

My music listening habits have evolved over the years, to the point where I enjoy having no two listening sessions alike. I am one that enjoys the curated radios, recommendations, and mixes that streaming services offer. I really enjoyed Plexamp's ability to do that all while remaining selfhosted. I also really enjoyed having CarPlay support.

So I started building a music app for Jellyfin to accomplish this! It's called Jellify and I would love to get the community's reaction to it as far as features, design, and roadmap are concerned not to mention, eyes on my shitty ass code 🥴. I built it in the React Native ecosystem, so cross platform support is 1000% in scope, I'm just waiting on a fix for one of my dependencies so that my Android builds compile.

Right now I have it as a private TestFlight since it's VERY buggy and still in alpha, but I've been making steady progress on it, with my goal to release the MVP (aka 1.0.0) around the end of May (in time for my dad's birthday). I do have .ipa files associated with each release for you iOS sideloaders that want to try it out. It's far from perfect, but it's come a long way since I started working on it.

If you have React experience and would like to help build Jellify, just let me know! I'm most easily reached on my Discord - anultravioletaurora

TL;DR: I'm building a music app for Jellyfin and I'd love to know what you think! I really want to take on Plexamp

I'm open to feature requests, pull requests, comments, questions, and suggestions!